The global gambling sector grew 4.9% in 2013 and generated €317.6bn in gross win, a figure that is set to rise to €332.4bn in 2014 and then on to €395bn by 2018, iGaming Business’s exclusive data partner H2 Gambling Capital has revealed in the second of the four data-led articles it is publishing this week.

Cory Cleveland, the president and co-founder of Play It Gaming, has targeted emerging markets for feature phone technology in Latin America, Asia and Africa after the Canadian social gaming start-up raised more than $700,000 through an oversubscribed seed investment round.